Traffic Safety Spurs Central Festival Access Restriction

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From March 15 access to and egress from Central Festival Phuket from Wichit Songkhram Rd will be restricted.

In an effort to reduce traffic tailbacks and the high number of accidents at the location, Provincial Police Commander Maj Gen Decha Budnampetch has ordered that the center line along Wichit Songkhram Rd where traffic stops to enter Central Festival Phuket be blocked with traffic cones.

Traffic driving west toward Kathu will not be able to turn right into Central Festival Phuket, and traffic exiting Central Festival will be required to turn left toward the bypass road.

The change was announced at a meeting at Phuket Provincial Hall yesterday, at which Phuket Governor Niran Kalayanamit presided.

“There are traffic jams there in the morning and afternoon rush hours, and there have been many accidents,” Gen Decha said.

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Given that Central does not open until 11 am I fail to see how it causes traffic jams

[Goldenbead]

So what do you do? Go 100 metres further down the road and U turn back to Central? Just as dangerous IMO. What a joke!

[smartecosse]

no, you simply drive up the road the wrong way from the bypass road, why waste 200 meters of doing petrol doing a u turn further up the road ........................

[Lithobid]

no, you simply drive up the road the wrong way from the bypass road, why waste 200 meters of doing petrol doing a u turn further up the road ........................

So after passing central last night on my way home during rush hour, I've noticed that they haven't shut down the right hand turn on the Kathu RD. to central completely, they just barricaded it enough to shut the flow down to 1 car at a time, and that has done wonders for the intersection where now all the accidents are happening from the backed up cross traffic.

But I'm sure the guys' at central can't see that far, so hey outta sight, outta mind!